Re: git index: how does it work?

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Heya,

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 09:21, Shaun Cutts<shaun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PS I'm considering writing an extension to git where the "diff" understands the
> semantics of certain types of files: hunks wouldn't just be textual blobs but
> would try to represent a minimal change from one version to the next based on an
> edit distance, so that, e.g. changing the location of a function would be
> represented by a "move" edit, rather than two text changes.

This sounds very similar to what Daniel was discussing in "[PATCH 2/3
v3] Use an external program to implement fetching with curl git" [0],
if you're truly interested in doing this, please do keep me posted
(and I suspect Dscho might also be interested in being cc-ed) :).

[0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124503

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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